At 12:02 PM 8/20/00 -0500, Will Hindmarch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In short, I don't think affording OGLed authors the most flexible protection
>possible is going to affect the consumer or sales of OGC in any substantially bad
>way.
Personally, I think the OGL has a much better chance of being popular if it is
viral in nature ("anything that uses OGL material becomes OGL"), so there is an
adverse effect in going a different direction. This spaghetti open/closed stuff
still sounds like an effort to derive value from the open work of others without
risking anything valuable of your own. I hope publishers will feel compelled to
contribute as much to the community as they take out.
However, now that D20 stuff is beginning to appear and the licenses are heading
towards public release, I'm looking forward to seeing if I'm wrong. Even if the
OGL/D20 effort isn't as genuinely open source as I would like, it still will be
fun to see third-party D20 material.
Rogers Cadenhead
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Web: http://www.prefect.com
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